Can't open "Formats" in "Language and Text"

In System Preferences > Language and Text, if I click the Formats tab, nothing happens. The other tabs work.
This is a problem as I messed up my date format the last time I was in there.
I tried safe booting, but it made no difference.
Any suggestions?
--Henri

Quit System Preferences.
Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose "Library"
and delete these files/folders:
/Preferences/com.apple.system preferences .plist
/Preferences/By Host/com.apple.systempreferences.xxx.plist of them)
and com.apple.PrefPane.Network.xxx.plist (the X's will be numbers)
Also,/Caches/com.apple.systempreferences

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